Frame for printers&#39; forms



L`. G. GARBE.

FRAME FOR PRINTERS FORMS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30, 1921.

1,398,544, Patented Nov. 29, 41921.

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Specification of Letters Patent. PzttitedNOLZQ, 1&21.

Application led .Tune 30, 1921. SerialNo. 481,618.v

` T 0 all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that l, LEs'rER G'. GARBE, a citizen of the United States, and resident of San Francisco, county of San'Francisco and State of California, have invented a new and Y useful F rame for PrintersiForms, of which the following is a specification.

T he present invention relates to the art of printing anu more particularly to an improved method for tying forms. In setting type it is customary to first assemble type into units and then assemble these units in the chase, a metal frame of rectangular form. The units usually consists of a plurality of sin-k gle letters formed into lines, and a plurality of lines formed into a block, which lines are Yordinarily surrounded by a plurality of thin metal plates, called the leads, vand which are of less depth than the letters so that they are not imprinted on the paper and the rules, thin metal plates, usually mitered at the corners so as to make a tight fit and intended to imprint a border on the paper. All these different pieces are ordinarily fit togetherv loosely and then secured to each other by a string which is wound around the units a number of times and tied temporarily. Then the different units or forms are assembled in the chase, the strings have to be removed, whichoperation is frequently accompanied by delaying incidents, such as the falling down of the rules, or the leads, or of letters, which usually takes up considerable time. After the printing operation is nished' the chase is disassembled and each individual unit has to be retied, before it can be taken out of the chase. The object of my invention is to provide a frame for tying these units, that can be put on more conveniently and more quickly, squared more correctly, eliminates all untoward incidents such as falling out of letters or leads or rules, can be placed with the units into the chase and stay there, so as to eliminate one untyingl and one tying operation altogether, can be opened quickly for corrections, can be used without the letters and leads to fill out a blank space and has numerous other advantages as will appear hereinafter.

The principle involved in my invention is in its preferred form illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is a perspective View of a form or unit provided with myl frame, Fig. 2 a perspective detailV view of one frame member, Fig. 3 an end "view of the same, and Fig. 4 a plan view of the form shown in Fig. l.

Referring to the drawing in detail, it will be seen that my frame (l) merely consists of four members, two sider members (4l) and two end members (6). The frame members are of rectangular crossssection, preferably of the same height as the leads (7),.at any rate less in height than the type, so that they do not imprint themselves on the paper, and are detachably joined together by tongues and grooves and a set screw (8). In the drawing each frame member is shown as having two tongues (9) and two grooves (l1) at either end, each groove at one end being opposite a tongue at the other end,

'which makes all the parts interchangeable,

and allows a large number of different sized frame members to be used interchangeably so that the frame can be made ofpractically any size desired. The number of tongues andv grooves employed is not essential, it being necessary that at 'each corner at least two tongues of one member grip one tongue of the other member, so that a set screw can be used for tyingthe members together. A set screw is employed intentionally for that purposes in contradistinction to a screw that would penetrate the second tongue, because i't is desired that the set screw bind the corners yieldingly, sufficiently strong to hold the form together but not strong enough to prevent a further tightening of the form under the pressure of the quoins used in assembling the chase.

To use my frame, the required type is first assembled, a desired number of leads placed around them, the' rule fit around the block thus formed, and then four frame members are picked of suitable size to fit the form. They are laid around the form and pressed together as tightly as can conveniently be done by hand. lThen the set screws, which never leave the frame members, are tightened and the form is ready to be placed into the chase. Here it is grouped with other forms, wooden furniture is placed aroundthem or between them and all the members within the chase are firmly pressed against each other by means of wedges or quoins well known in the art. Itewill be seen that in this latter process the type is pressed together therefore it is essential that set screws be used for binding the corners, which are adapted to yield to pressure.

My frame can also be used to fill blank spaces, because it will readily be understood that it is almost as substantial without the form as it is with the form, whereby much Y work is eliminated.

Ordinarily a chase is subdivided into four parts by cross-pieces, because itis almost impossible to successfully use loose forms of the present time-over a large area. This necessitates wedges or quoins on all four sides of the chase, all of them pressing the forms against the center cross-pieces. IVith my frame the cross-pieces are not needed and two lines of quoins will be suicient for irmly securing the type in the chase.

rIhe chase being rectangular and the frames being firmly pressed against the sides and ends of the chase and having a natural tendency to meet at right angles, the operator is always assured of a perfectly rectangular form and in assembling his form will find that the mitered corners will almost automatically assume their correct positions.

If for different pages of a book frame members of the same size are used, perfect uniformity can be easily obtained for all the pages and it is also easy to get adjoining pages to exactly register. I

If any changes 0I' corrections are to be made after the form is assembled, the frame is easily opened by unscrewing two set screws, and only one or two frame members have to be removed to give convenient access, while the other members may be left in the places to give support to the form.

The fact that the frame is placed into the chase with the form saves a complete tying and untying operation.

I claim:

l. In combination with a printers form of the character described, a rectangular frame comprising four frame members having registering tongues and grooves at either end and set screws for yieldingly joining the frame members at the corners.

2. In means for binding printers forms of the character described, aplurality of frame members adapted to be interchangeably assembled into frames for binding the forms and yieldingmeans for securing the yframe members t0 each other.

3. In means for binding printers forms of the character described, a plurality of frame members being tongued and grooved at the ends so as to be adapted to be interchangeably assembled into frames for binding the forms and set screws for yieldingly joining the frame members at the corners.

4. The method of binding a printers form, which consists in placing four frame members having registering tongues and grooves at their ends around the form in rectangular relation and yieldingly binding the same by means of set screws.

5. The method of binding printers forms, which consists in the use of a plurality of frame members having registering tongues and grooves at either end and being adapted to be interchangeably locked into rectangular frames of various sizes, and of set screws for yieldingly securing the frame members to one another.

LESTER Gf GARBE. 

